Intel Hades Canyon NUC gaming benchmarks leak

HEXUS took a close look at the Intel 8th Gen Core chips with AMD Radeon RX Vega Graphics, in as much detail as we could, during the CES 2018 in January. The information shared by Intel was quite extensive and included some 3DMark 11 and gaming benchmark comparisons but not really enough to satisfy us, nor the tech-hungry HEXUS readership. As we await further official details and actual hardware launches to fill in details missed out by Intel's presentation, it's good to see a tasty leak that looks genuine.

In the Korean sourced benchmarks three games were tested on the Hades Canyon NUC. The Core i7 8809G was installed alongside 16GB DDR4-2133 (8GBx2), and a Samsung 960 Pro 1TB NVMe drive, with the Windows Pro 10 OS. Default and OC (OC on CPU, memory, and GPU) speeds were tested.

The benchmark data from the games tested suggest integrated graphics performance is on a par with a discrete AMD Radeon RX 570 graphics card. As this is an early sample on test things could be improved further by release. Now the question on most people's minds will concern pricing. With the outrageous pricing of RX 570 cards on the market at the moment, how much will Intel Core i7 8809G parts / systems cost when they ship? Even if MSRPs are reasonable, if such processors appeal to miners then the pricing may shoot up rather sharply.

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Whilst these are sample chipsets being tested, what's also of importance is that these are almost certainly using in development drivers, too. I know I'm looking at the possibility of one of these systems as the replacement for my old i7/GTX680 desktop; an article I read from CES stated that the UK price worked out to around £750 for the barebones system with no RAM or storage, I can probably reuse my SSD from my current system, with a bump on my storage HDD and suitable RAM it will work out cheaper than buying an i7/GTX1060 system.